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Prayer for Diversity
Change is difficult. It can only happen when we reflect on the present and imagine different possibilities for going forward. ...
Honoring Dad, Forgiving Myself for Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish month of Elul is a month of contemplation and introspection leading up to Rosh Hashanah. For Victoria Washington ...
Amazing and Improbable Transformations for the New Year
Change is an inevitable part of our lives. Most changes, however, happen to us from the outside: we age, we ...
An Afro-Ashkefardi Recipe For Rosh Hashanah
From black-eyed pea hummus spiked with homemade horseradish harissa to matzoh-meal fried chicken cooked in shmaltz, to peach noodle kugels ...
Easy Cross Cultural Rosh Hashanah Meal
One of our favorite bloggers Jennifer “CubanRueben” Stempel has done it again! She has come up with a wonderful holiday ...
Lessons from Catholic Mass for Rosh Hashanah
Growing up in a very Reform household, I was never completely comfortable at the prospect of being called to the ...
Iron Chef Rosh Hashanah: Be Fruitful and Multiply
My daughter Mia often watches Iron Chef, a cooking show on TV in which they designate a secret ingredient that ...
Maimonides’ Home and My Grandmother’s Song
Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one ...
Cross-Cultural Parenting: Materialism vs Relationship
My daughter is wise beyond her years. She teaches me. Recently a family with older children handed down to us ...
The Risks of Being an Interracial Family
It is true that every family is different, but for multiracial families that difference can bring with it specific challenges. ...
World Traveler Becomes World Musician
What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem ...
Learning from Little White Lies
Growing up biracial in white Jewish family means that you don’t often see others who have your experience/look like you. ...